Working across disciplines

Artists are becoming more ambitious in their desire to work across platforms but is it what audiences want?

2 Jul 2015 12:00

Gina Fairley

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The notion of interdisciplinary practice is not a sexy term. ‘I don’t know anyone who uses it as marketing jargon,’ quipped curator Bec Dean at the recent Museums Australia Conferences.

That difficulty prompted her to ask, ‘How are audiences engaging with this practice, where are they engaging, and how is the interdisciplinary finding its way into arts education?’

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina